Nicolas,
Yes, I see you crop closely and do it to great effect! But that is you.
Guys,
I must say that until one has such exceptional experience, framing in the camera should be generous! Yes that sounds like sacrilage, but I am often going against custom! I find in many pictures submitted, that the missing parts of cut-off shadows, leaves, glistening water, limbs, rocks and exceptional clouds that are part of the ambience or balanced composition or even meaning are really needed!
When one is home, one can re-experience all that joy and bring to that picture the time and attention that the great landscape artists did when they waited and returned and moved and considered before taking 3 perfect pictures.
What is not recorded on film cannot be part of this process. If too much is included, there is lack of clear focus and composition. However, often a great subject can miss one branch or half a hill or dark cloud that really is important.
Making a picture is real work, or else anyone could do it and we would just need to buy a camera. Rather, one is extracting a likeness and using ones own esthetics to show or not shoe and the manner in which the potential image is made.
The picture is not made at the time of pressing the shutter only the down payment on a dream!
So for people without a portfolio of pictures that "work" for rhe photographer, I would beg you to put aside notions of "close-cropping" when designing the picture arounf your subject and extracting that portion of the scene from what you see around. This is a creative trap.
Nicolas has sailed the oceans, seen boats from drawings to finish and launch and know what he see and how they can be shown with power and sensuality. However, for many of the rest of us, adding more generous margins allows more thought. The latter cannot make up for experience of days on a mountainside, watching the light. However, it does allow one to consider the context and importance of the scene in more concentrated and considered a fashion and is great for training the brain!
Asher